I’m rounding out a tome on ritual and have taken to searching my old blogs for words of wisdom. Oh, so much has changed since this Mabon post, but with Midsummer (Litha) just around the wheel, I thought I’d reshare it with you.

]]>Comment on About The Bad Witch(s) by Gadflyhttps://abadwitch.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1735
Fri, 16 May 2014 09:37:52 +0000http://abadwitch.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-1735Thank you for allowing me into this eerie Domain
As you percieve i am in merrie england where i haunt the spooky passage ways of olde London towne, the ancient tracks through our mist shrouded woodlands and the windswept moors. The name ‘Gadfly’ was inferred on me by a former Domme who i was (still am?) her factotum. My only connection to across the Atlantic is having appeared in a major role in the stage version of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. I don’t think it prudent to discuss my initiate rites suffice to say that i was trained under Merkah real name Olga Dorne Sambell.
Bless
]]>Comment on The Road Not Taken by And Now For Something Completely Different | Witchcraft From Scratchhttps://abadwitch.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/the-road-not-taken/#comment-1734
Thu, 15 May 2014 18:43:48 +0000http://abadwitch.wordpress.com/?p=883#comment-1734[…] me achieve a long time dream that has been thwarted for far too long. You might look back to The Road Not Taken and see what happened to me a few years […]
]]>Comment on Songs Of A Year Past by Gadflyhttps://abadwitch.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/songs-of-a-year-past/#comment-1731
Thu, 15 May 2014 12:01:07 +0000http://abadwitch.wordpress.com/?p=1660#comment-1731Greetings my Darklings from olde London towne
i am looking forward to much dialogue on these pages
Bless
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Sun, 11 May 2014 09:36:58 +0000http://abadwitch.wordpress.com/?p=465#comment-1723[…] helix and the xiphoid I calls it like I sees it Origins of the word […]
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Sat, 22 Mar 2014 03:59:38 +0000http://abadwitch.wordpress.com/?p=808#comment-1651Well I am Thelemic and not Wiccan but as I and the Wiccan friends I have discussed it with interpret this it is about intent and malice vs harmony.
The Thelemic view being that if your Will (purpose/intent) is in harmony with the universe then you can do no ultimate harm. My Wiccan friends say something very similar but referencing nature or ‘the natural order’. Thus by interpretation to feed and nurture your family is in keeping with this even if it means killing plants or animals or people to do so. To wipe out a people or animal or plant is not nurturing nor harmonious and lacks balance. I have to admit that between those two extremes I can see how Wiccans can struggle to find balance.
As a Thelemic ‘harm’ for me becomes a spiritual thing and far less literal than accidentally stepping on an ant or digesting a bacterium. Am I harming myself? becomes the question. Any act that violates my True Will becomes ‘harm’. So to act without harmonious purpose or with malific intent is to commit ‘harm’ both to ones self and to ones surroundings.
As such, I do not believe you ‘harm’ a sheep when you slaughter it for its meat but if you do not do so with the appropriate respect for its purpose then you commit ‘harm’ upon it, yourself and gnosis.
]]>Comment on D is for Dianic, Diversity, Discrimination, and DNA by Ergi and Trans* Identity: “The Sacred Third” | Witchcraft From Scratchhttps://abadwitch.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/d-is-for-dianic-diversity-discrimination-and-dna/#comment-1633
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:08:37 +0000http://abadwitch.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-1633[…] from talking about the cisfemale-only ritual brouhaha at PantheaCon a couple years back, I haven’t talked about discrimination as much as I should. And I haven’t […]
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Sun, 16 Feb 2014 01:18:22 +0000http://abadwitch.wordpress.com/?p=808#comment-1628[…] area, there is one tribe-member that always has something to teach me.[3] And I admit that sometimes I trade off the “Harm None” of Wiccan practice for Heathen pragmatism. I’m thoughtful, but I’m not idealist. I would like to homestead […]
]]>Comment on Initiation by Sizing Down a Witch | Witchcraft From Scratchhttps://abadwitch.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/initiation/#comment-1620
Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:45:53 +0000http://abadwitch.wordpress.com/?p=785#comment-1620[…] REAL Initiation, Capital “I” Initiation, can feck with a body as much as a […]
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